Horse Racing

January 21, 1986|By Ken Paskman

HARD TO ACCEPT. ''I can't talk about the horses,'' Johnny Campo said, ''maybe in three or four days.'' Campo, one of thoroughbred racing's top trainers, was the trainer for 36 of the 45 thoroughbreds who died in Sunday's barn fire at Belmont Park in Elmont, N.Y. Four of the dead horses were offspring of Pleasant Colony, who won the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness and $877,465 in 1981. The offspring were Pleasant Motion, Colony of Motion, Pleasant Lady D. and Tearful Colony. Detective Lt. William Gutersloh, commanding officer of the Nassau County arson squad, said the cause of the fire was unknown, but ''we have nothing to indicate anything suspicious about the fire at this time.''